CSPAN3 American Artifacts February 14, 2016
Each week, american artifacts visits a historic places. Wed traveled to learn about Congress Hall, the Meeting Place untilngress from 1790 1800. Our guide is park Ranger Matthew ifill. In the years that washington, d. C. Is being built, philadelphia serves as the temporary capital. The second floor was the United States senate. The house of representatives each representative at that point in our history 130,000ted 100,000 people. We had 106 members of the house would fit in this room and eventually from 16 states. The story of philadelphia as a capital, we are taking the story of a new consti...